Denial of Service Vulnerability in YARA 3.5.0 via Crafted Rule Handling in lexer.l

Denial of Service Vulnerability in YARA 3.5.0 via Crafted Rule Handling in lexer.l

CVE-2016-10210 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

libyara/lexer.l in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yy_get_next_buffer function.

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